November 8, 2024

‘Titans’ Adds Red Hood, Scarecrow and Barbara Gordon for Gotham City-Set Season 3

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“Titans” continues to dump out its DC Comics toy chest, adding Red Hood, Dr. Jonathan Crane, and Barbara Gordon for its upcoming third season, which will be set primarily in Gotham City.

The casting announcements were revealed Saturday as part of DC Fandome.

Curran Walters, who plays Jason Todd (aka the second Robin after Dick Grayson) will don the new Red Hood identity on the coming season.  In the comics Todd was killed by the Joker during the infamous “A Death in the Family” arc, only to be brought back from the dead by Batman arch nemesis Ra’s al Ghul. Warped and embittered by the experience, he takes the name and general aesthetic from one of Batman’s earliest villains, Red Hood — who as it happens was the original criminal identity used by the man who would later call himself Joker — and becomes a ruthless, often deadly vigilante.

Dr. Crane is best known by his villainous alter-ego, Scarecrow, who induces his enemies with his fear-based toxin. In “Titans” he is now an inmate in Arkham Asylum and offers his services as a profiler and consultant for the Gotham City Police Department. Cillian Murphy played the character in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.

Barbara Gordon, meanwhile, just happens to be the Gotham City police commissioner and long past her days as Batgirl. Although she has a past relationship with Dick Grayson (Brendan Thwaites), she is wary of the Titans now being in Gotham. Alicia Silverstone played a loosely-based version of the character in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin.”

Casting decisions for Crane and Gordon will be announced at a later date.

“Titans” is produced by Weed Road Pictures and Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. The series was developed by Akiva Goldsman and Geoff Johns & Greg Berlanti, based on characters from DC. Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, Greg Walker, Sarah Schechter and Richard Hatem are the executive producers.

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    Christopher Reeve is by far the best Superman. But “Superman IV” is a bomb in every sense — partly because of its heavy-handedness about bombs. Nuclear bombs. The film finds Superman trying to eliminate the world’s nuclear threat, but his best intentions run afoul of a silly, badly dated villain named Nuclear Man.

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    34. “Supergirl” (1984)

    We had a female-superhero movie in 1984, and it was pure cheese. But hey, at least they tried. The best thing I can say about it is there are worse things in life than this movie.

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    Best known as “the one Shaq was in back when he tried acting,” “Steel” is pretty bad. But the fun kind of bad.

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    Warner Bros has continued to innovate in how to make bad DCEU movies, with “Justice League” managing to be terrible in a totally different way from “Batman v Superman” and “Suicide Squad.”

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    30. “Man of Steel” (2013)

    Could have been worse, I guess. But it’s still morally gross and has a plot that doesn’t make sense. That it’s very pretty to look at doesn’t override those things nearly enough to make it watchable.

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    This is not a good characterization of the Joker as a human being, and aside from that it’s just a soulless, meaningless experience. 

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    Thoroughly horrible, but somehow amusing even so. Sad that it’s seemingly been swept into the litter box of history.

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    Rightly hated, but it’s tremendously entertaining here and there. Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwarzeneggar are going so far over the top I can’t help but admire them.

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    Overreliance on cartoony visual effects during a period when big blockbusters were moving away from that aesthetic meant this was a movie nobody liked. Not that it was especially horrible. It just looked like a dumb cartoon and is hard to watch.

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    Actually a pretty decent attempt by Bryan Singer to do a Christopher Reeve “Superman” movie in the present day, but Brandon Routh couldn’t pull off the charisma it takes to be the Man of Steel. It was his first movie, so that’s not surprising. But it’s a shame, because Routh has gotten much better in the years since.

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    Funny, sweet and self-deprecating — exactly what we needed in the wake of the disaster that was “Batman v Superman.”

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